@javier and DSM: Silly me :) But of course you are right about that. It's just a random number, anyway, plucked from the other implementation.
> I guess discussion should take place on the ticket, but, just for the > record: It might be worth while to use an annotated version of the > cython code (the notebook provides it); one finds that most lines of > code have a big overhead over C. Yes, I am aware of that; but in this case it was nearly all yellow :) which is why I didn't want to just add cdef's all over the place willy- nilly. > Apart from that, using %prun on the command line reveals that most > computation time is spent on *algebraic* numbers and *interval* > fields. That's surprising, because the code does not mentions any of > "interval", "qqbar" etc. So, perhaps there is a rogue coercion > happening behind the scenes. > Discussion continuing on the ticket - incidentally, Simon already provided a ton of help on this there, let's hear it for the speed of open source! (When it wants to be speedy.) - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org